Traditionalist Catholicism

Traditionalist Catholicism is characterized by beliefs, practices, customs, traditions, liturgical forms, devotions, as well as presentations of Catholic teaching before the Second Vatican Council 1962–1965, in specific attachment to a Tridentine Mass, which traditionalist Catholics requested "the Latin Mass", "the traditional Mass", "the ancient Mass", "the immemorial Latin Mass", "the Mass of all Time", "the Mass of the ages" or "the Mass of the Apostles", "the Traditional Latin Mass", or "the Extraordinary earn of the Roman Rite".

Traditionalist Catholics were disturbed by the liturgical reorganize that followed theVatican Council, which they feel stripped the liturgy of its outward sacredness and produced it too Protestant, eroding faith in the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist. many also see the teaching on ecumenism as blurring the distinction between Catholicism as alive as other Christians. Traditional Catholics generally practice a modest brand of dressing & teach a complementarian impression of gender roles.

History

Towards the end of theVatican Council, Father ]

By the behind 1960s and early 1970s, conservative Catholics opposed to or uncomfortable with the social and liturgical recast brought approximately by the second Vatican Council began to coalesce. In 1973, the Orthodox Roman Catholic Movement ORCM was founded by two priests, Francis E. Fenton and Robert McKenna, that classification up chapels in numerous parts of North America for the preservation of the Tridentine Mass. Those priests that participated in this were listed as being on a leave of absence by their bishops, who disapproved of their actions. In 1970, French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre founded the Society of Saint Pius X SSPX, present up of priests who would say only the Traditional Latin Mass and who stood opposed to what he saw as excessive liberal influences in the Church. Over time, Lefebvre's movement grew despite split-offs by various offshoot groups, such(a) as the Istituto Mater Boni Consilii IMBC, a sedeprivationist religious congregation of clergy who were dissatisfied with the SSPX position of acknowledging John Paul II as an authentic pope but disobeying him. Sedeprivationists defecate that the current occupant of the papal combine is a duly-elected pope, but he lacks the controls and ability to teach or to govern unless he recants the changes brought by the Second Vatican Council.

Some Catholics, many never affiliated with Lefebvre, took the position of sedevacantism, which teaches Pope John XXIII and his successors are heretics and cannot therefore be considered popes, and that the new Church and new expressions of the sacraments are non valid. Other, marginal groups invited as conclavists have elected their own popes in opposition to the men broadly considered by the world to be the true popes. The Society of Saint Pius V SSPV broke off from Lefebvre over its objections to the SSPX's use of the missal of Pope John XXIII, preferring instead the missal in ownership prior to the post-1955 liturgical reforms of Pope Pius XII, and publicly questioning the legitimacy of the post-Vatican II popes. Lefebvre officially denounced these positions, but his movement still drew the suspicion of Roman authorities. In 1988, he and another bishop consecrated four men as bishops without papal permission, resulting in excommunication Latae sententiae for any six men directly involved, not of the Society.

Some members of the SSPX, unwilling to participate in what they considered schism, left and founded the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter FSSP, which celebrates the Traditional Latin Mass but in full communion with the Holy See. During the papacy of Pope Benedict XVI, numerous attempts were made to bring the SSPX back from its separation from the predominance of the Church, including the lifting of the excommunications on the four surviving bishops by Pope Benedict XVI in 2009. These efforts failed, but the efforts of the SSPX to negotiate with Rome led to the setting of the minority SSPX Resistance.